A patient is experiencing severe pain after suffering an electrical burn in a workplace accident. The nurse is applying knowledge of the pathophysiology of pain when planning this patients nursing care. What is the physiologic process by which noxious stimuli, such as burns, activate nociceptors?

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Transduction refers to the processes by which noxious stimuli, such as a surgical incision or burn, activate primary afferent neurons called nociceptors. Transmission, perception, and modulation are subsequent to this process.

A Patient Is Experiencing Severe Pain After Suffering an Electrical